Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Italy. He became an astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Galileo Galilei observed that the moon was covered in craters and mountains. He also discovered that the sun was covered in sunspots and that it rotates. Galileo also disagreed that the Earth was at the centre of the Solar System. Instead he believed that the sun was at the centre of the Solar System and was orbited by the Earth and the other planets. The church disagreed with him and put him in house arrest. Galileo died in 1642 whilst he was still in house arrest. Today he is recognised as an important astronomer and scientist. He is viewed as the father of modern science.